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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 15</span><span class="fp-text">LE CHIEN ET L'AGNEAU</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XV</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">CANIS AD AGNUM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un Chien entendit bêler un Agneau parmi des chèvres&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Pauvre bête&nbsp;! lui dit-il, tu te trompes, ta mère n'est pas ici&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et il lui montra un troupeau de brebis paissant à l'écart.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Je ne cherche point, répondit l'Agneau, celle qui conçoit quand il lui plaît,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui porte pendant certains mois un fardeau qu'elle ne connaît pas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et s'en débarrasse ensuite en le déposant à terre ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais je cherche celle qui me nourrit en m'offrant ses mamelles,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui, pour m'élever, dérobe à ses enfants une partie de leur lait.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Cependant tu dois préférer celle qui t'a donné le jour. —&nbsp;Non, certes, répondit l'Agneau ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">savait-elle seulement si je naîtrais noir ou blanc&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et quand elle l'aurait su,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle ne m'a point rendu un si grand service puisque je suis un bélier,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">attendant à chaque instant le couteau du boucher.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Lorsque ma mère a conçu, sa volonté n'y était pour rien ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pourquoi la préférer à celle qui a eu pitié de moi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui m'accorde bénévolement des soins si touchants&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est l'affection qui fait la parenté et non la loi de la nature.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Inter capellas agno <span class="fp-correction" title="ballanti  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">balanti</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="balanti  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">ballanti</span></span> canis&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Stulte, inquit, erras ; non est <span class="fp-correction" title="haec  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">hic</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="hic  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">haec</span></span> mater tua&nbsp;» ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ovesque segregatas ostendit procul.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Non illam <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n106/mode/1up">p.43</a>]</span> quaero quae cum libitum est concipit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">deinde portat onus ignotum certis mensibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">novissime prolapsam effundit sarcinam ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">verum illam quae me nutrit admoto ubere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fraudatque natos lacte, ne desit mihi.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Tamen illa est potior <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> te peperit. —&nbsp;Non ita est.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Unde illa scivit niger an albus nascerer&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Age porro fecisset cum crearer masculus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Beneficium magnum sane natale dedit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut <span class="fp-correction" title="spectarem  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">exspectarem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="exspectarem  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">spectarem</span></span> lanium in horas singulas&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Cujus potestas nulla in <span class="fp-correction" title="gygnendo  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">gignendo</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="gignendo  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">gygnendo</span></span> fuit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cur hac sit potior, quae jacentis miserita est</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dulcemque sponte praestat benivolentiam&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Facit parentes bonitas, non necessitas.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'auteur a voulu démontrer dans ces vers</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que les hommes qui résistent aux lois cèdent aux bienfaits.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">His demonstrare voluit auctor versibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">obsistere homines <span class="fp-correction" title="legimus  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">legibus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="legibus  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">legimus</span></span>, meritis capi.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-jeu-et-la-severite.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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